Those of us that know Elena personally, as I do, may find her ethnocentric agenda takes to be a bad fit on a school board for a school system that has been in constant crisis for decades.

Elena Herrada, you may recall, last year likened the Border Patrol to the KKK. No word from her, however, on how illegals that are violent felons should be treated. The last thing Detroit and its school system needs is another xenophobic voice telling residents and kids that it's us versus them, the outsiders, the non-Detroiters.

Just curious: whatever became of former school board member Lonnie Bates?